UWM hosts Benning

James Benning, a Milwaukee native celebrated for more than 40 years of artful landscape films, comes to the UWM Union Theatre, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., to show some of his recent work in free screenings Dec. 1-4. | Nov. 29, 2012»Read Full Article

All questions about the legitimacy of love at first sight are answered when Anna (Keira Knightley) appears for the first time in "Anna Karenina," director Joe Wright's stunning adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

She's porcelain doll delicate in a pearl white corset that accents each subtle feature of the young wife and mother, who's in a comfortable but unhappy marriage to the plain Alexei Karenin (Jude Law), an older, powerful Russian statesman. | Nov. 29, 2012»Read Full Article(1)

The Whitney Biennial is the only exhibit in the country that even attempts to showcase the best contemporary art being made in the U.S. It's an impossible job, really, and people love and hate the every-two-years show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In its vigilant attempt to get it right, the Whitney has experimented with its curatorial strategies many times over the years. And it is doing so again. | Nov. 29, 2012»Read Full Blog Post(2)

Crime films are not one-size-fits-all affairs. If you've seen one, you haven't seen them all. It only seems you have because certain elements are recurring: all-male settings filled with violence and extreme characters who are hard-boiled or Runyonesque.

Crime still pays today, but it takes more than generic felonious acts and heinous characters to move the needle. | Nov. 29, 2012»Read Full Article

Season six "American Idol" winner and "Sparkle" star Jordin Sparks is coming to the Boston Store at Southridge Mall Friday to promote her new fragrance, "Ambition." I'm slated to get a few minutes to ask her a few questions Friday, but I have a question for her fans first: what do you think I should ask Jordin Sparks?

"Honor Flight," an emotionally powerful documentary about veterans traveling to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., will have a red-carpet screening Thursday at the Marcus North Shore, 11700 N. Port Washington Blvd., Mequon.

Free tickets to the screening have been distributed to veterans and are no longer available. But the film will play commercially at some Marcus theaters Dec. 5-7. | Nov. 29, 2012»Read Full Blog Post(2)